Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-06-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


New Locals-Hides Wanted, Pape's Fire
Works.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
All our groceries now close at p. m,
Thorn Creek and vicinity was visited by
a hail storm last Thursday afternoon.
Part of Muddycreek, township. was WIS.,
tied by a terrific hail storm "Wednesday alter
noon, Jun. 1st, 1887.
Mr.. ]. w. Lintz, of Lancaster township,
as badly injured at Gettman's satn.ralsing
on friday, of last week, and died on SUNDAY.
The directors of the Butler Water Co
met in Kittanning last Tuesday and "deciar-
ed handsome dividend on their stock.
Harry Graham has sold off his stock OF
coffee, and until his new room is finished Will
job tea.
A. G. Reed Post, No. l05, G. A. r., meets
to.night. June 8. at Post Room, at baif-past
seven o'clock sharp. Let all take notice.
-"Long live the Sausage" is what the
psrisian mob is row bowling. Bonlanger or
Sausage seems to be very popular feiio" III
Paris.
A dispatch from Glasgow, Scotland, last
Saturday, stated that 200 miners were en-,
tombed in the Udston coal pit, the result OF
an explosion.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
Children's Aid Society will be held IN the
United Presbyterian Church, Friday, June
10, at 2:30 p. m.
The accident on the P r. R. at the ia.
mons horse. shoe bend will teach the railroad
people the danger Of trains passing each
other at that point.
BY the burning of large street car depot
and stable in New York city last THURSDAY
night. twelve hundred horses were roasted 10
death. The lower story of the building was
occupied by the cars, and the horses were
kept in the upper stories.
The barn of Simon Barrickman, of But
Ter township, was struck by lightning on
Tuesday of last week, but the huid passeu
down the rods and did not ignite the Darn.
One of his horses was knocked down oy the
shock but recovered.
The $40 gold piece Of the Pittsburg shoe
dealer was awarded to Miss Horner OF that
town. whose solution of the puzzle was os4
plus 40 and 1916 equals 100. Ihls Is Out one
of great number OF correct solutions that
can be obtained by the use OF fracnons' Dut
Miss H. got hers in first.
Mr.. John N. Patterson was the hrst
nerson in Butler TO put the patent raiiroao
cash-box system into his store-room. IL Is
very convenient arrangement ana is quiIe
curiosity. One firm is said to control az
sbe cash.box systems patented in the U. s.
and thew make and rent them, instead OF
selling outright.
Sheriff Kramer took young Coats to
Dixmont Tuesday, arrested Joseph Bay Tor
perjury, and coming home brought Dave
Moony from the Work House to serve W
days in jail for costs in a liquor case. bay
is a member Of the whole sale grocery firm OF
Copan & Bay, AID he was arrested on oath
of VIM. Martin, Esq. He waived hearing
before Esq. Brown next day, and gave bail
for court.
The best way to clean hair brushes is
with spirits of ammonia, as its effect IS lmme-
date No rubbing is required, and cold wa
ter can be used as successfully as warm'
Take teaspoonful of ammonia, dip the hair
part of the brush without wetting the ivory,
and in q moment the grease is removed; then
rinse in cold water, shake well, and dry In
the air, but not in the sun. Soda soap soit-
ems the bristles and invariably turns ivory
yellow.
The graduating class of our. Public
School consisted of sixteen members this
year-seyen young ladies and nine young
men-and their commencement exercises
held in the Opera House LAST Thursday even
ing were we'll attended by our citizens, and
passed off very pleasantly. Mr.. Albert Krug
carried off the first honor of the class with an
average of 90, the highest yet made; Miss
Name McJunkin secured the second honor,
and Miss Clara Z. Cornelius the third.
AT the meeting Of Prohibitionists in this
town last Thursday, the following ticket was
nominated: Sheriff. A. C. Wilson, of Butler;
Prothonotary, I. B. White, Of Butler town.
ship; Register and Recorder, j. c. Kerr, OF
Slipperyrock; Treasurer, Rob't Mcbride, of
Franklin; Commissioners, Jos. Brown, OF
Mercer, and Jacob Hutchman of Adams;
Clerk Of Courts, w. Watson, Of Buffalo, Cor
oIer, A. N. Brown, Of Penn; Auditors, Thos.
Dugan and-A. +. Cochran.
The Commissioners of Wayne county Of
fer reward Of $1,000 for the apprehension of
James McCabe, who was under sentence to
be hanged May Goth, and who escaped from
the Jail at Honesdale on the previous morn
ing and left for parts unknown. man
must be hanged on the day fixed for the exc
cution, unless the time is changed as provid.
ed for by law, and Gov. Beaver has solved
the problem in this case by granting the con-
demned a respite. James may yet keep his
engagement with the Sheriff.
The ordinary street lamps, the ones en-
closed with glass, are not success with nat
ural gas, but the open ones, particularly the
cup-shaped ones known as TOdd's patent, do
very we'll. They are success in more ways
than one, in that they destroy the bugs and
insects in their vicinity. These creatures
persist in flying into the flames till their
wings get scorched when they drop to the
ground. Chickens thrive on insects and it
might pay person who was raising large
numbers of poultry to erect a standpipe for
natural gas in his coop or enclosure.
The Reibold oil field was the scene of a
heavy wind storm last Monday afternoon.
which snapped large trees, upset derricks
and unroofed shanties. Mr.. 7. w. Phillips
and number of other men took refuge in a
shanty on the Dumbart farm, but were
frightened by the falling of a limb of a tree
upon it and started to run across a field,
when Mr.. P. was attacked by congestion of
the brain, or rush of blood to the head.
He was helped back to the shanty and after
wards taken to his home in New Castle,
where he now is. and he is said to be
doing well.
Last Wednesday afternoon, while Den
mis- Mcbride and John Kneeson, of Clear.
field township, were in a buggy crossing the
Pittsburg and Western Railroad, near Spang,
Chalfant & Co.'S mill, at Etna, they were run
down by shifting engine. The buggy was
wrecked and the men thrown out Mr.. Nc
Bride suffered compound fracture Of the
thigh and was badly cut about the head. He
was taken to the Allegheny General Hospi-
tai. Kneeson was cut slightly on the face,
but not otherwise injured. There is no
watchman at the crossing, and it is said the
engine approached without giving any sig
nal.
Mr.. Palm, of the Western Press, whom
his editorial brethren irreverently style gos.
pei sharp, failed to answer the question Of the
SharpsvlIe Advertiser as to the first business
transaction mentioned in the Bible. Then
the AdUertiser man said it was when Pharaoh
received a check on the Bank Of the Red
Sea, and Moses passed it. The Press rejoined
by asking If, before the Pharaoh business,
Rebecca didn't give Abraham's servant a
draught which he accepted? They must be
short of Bibles over in Mercer. Haven't
they ascertained that Adam and his wife got
trusted for suit Of clothes before their eject